Classes began yesterday, Oct 3, for 720 first-year students at the US$100 million Eastern International University in Binh Duong Province.

A lot of universities have spent tens of billions of dong to purchase expensive equipment for technique majors. However, the heavy investment still cannot help them attract more students.

The Ministry of Education and Training says that primary school students have to carry no more than 9 textbooks to school every day. However, in fact, in order to fulfill their learning duties, students have to bring up to 20 textbooks to school.

 Most of the sea-relating economics, from oil and gas, seafood processing to service sectors, have close relations to hydrometeorology and oceanography. Meanwhile, Vietnam only has two schools that train bachelors in the fields, while the number of students registering to study the majors just account for 0.04 percent of total students.